Four happy faces showed up today, but we got so carried away that I totally forgot to "check" everybody's names!
Anyway, it was Monica, Amy, Emily and Mariah. One of these is a "Thursday spy", another one is going to go on a cruise ship to Shanghai on the "Asuka" (a beautiful ship she is, I just saw her at Meriken Park last Sunday), yet another one is sometimes being referred to as "the boss", and number 4  is a big fan of Terada Pond! Ok, now we all know who was who!

I started the chat with really shocking news I heard on the radio this morning about the closure of the "Tako Ferry" -  a line connecting Awaji Island with Akashi in about 20 minutes. 




I always enjoyed going to Awaji Island with the motorbike, my son taken on tow on the back. The 20-minute crossing always made me feel of going somewhere "really far", like taking a trip. We would go around Awaji in a day, taking lunch somewhere, and coming back in the early evening, usually waiting for quite a long time to catch the ferry back as bike space is limited on the ship, and Awaji is (now used to be?) a popular biker's destination. But the waiting time never bothered or annoyed us, being one of many bikers sharing the same love.....I am really going to miss the ferry, really.......Thank you so much for nice memories! 
(Of course, there's always the option of using the bridge, but hey, where's the fun in that? Overpriced and NOT romantic at all!)

Our study material looked like this (and YES, I managed to make one lady giggle!)
  



And we all had three cookies from this tasty "pile":




Gotta go home - HUNGRY!

Good - Night 

The "Master"